 I love collecting coins and notes from my travels Juggling 5 different currencies along with the Canadian dollar was interesting! Luckily my roommate had downloaded a handy offline app that told us what to expect with the exchange rates. Useful info (exchange rates are approx based on when I travelled to Central America - April 2015): Out of the 5 countries I visited, Costa Rica was the most expensive, but Antigua in Guatemala wasn't far behind. El Salvador adopted the US dollar as their national currency some time ago. Costa Rica 1 US dollar = 500 Colones Nicaragua 1 US dollar = 26 Cordobas Honduras 1 US dollar = 20 Lempira Guatemala 1 US dollar = 7.5 Quetzales I was chuffed to get a 1979 white dollar in El Salvador and looked it up to see how rare it was once I got back home. Turns out it isn't that special (would have been great to get the 1981 version), but still a good little find for the currency collection.  About the white dollar, taken from Wikipedia.
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